2013 Alaska Statutes
Title 14 - EDUCATION, LIBRARIES, AND MUSEUMS
Chapter 14.09 - TRANSPORTATION OF PUPILS
Sec. 14.09.010 Transportation of students.

(a) A school district that provides student transportation services for the transportation of students who reside a distance from established schools is eligible to receive funding for operating or subcontracting the operation of the transportation system for students to and from the schools within the student's transportation service area. Subject to appropriation, the amount of funding provided by the state for operating the student transportation system is the amount of a school district's ADM, less the ADM for the district's correspondence programs during the current fiscal year, multiplied by the per student amount for the school district as follows:

DISTRICT

PER STUDENT AMOUNT

(1) (2)

for the school for the

school

year beginning years

beginning

July 1, 2011 on or

after

July 1,

2012

Alaska Gateway $2,081 $2,148

Aleutians East 311 321

Anchorage 435 449

Annette Island 182 188

Bering Strait 48 50

Bristol Bay 2,672 2,758

Chatham 280 289

Copper River 1,586 1,637

Cordova 335 346

Craig 423 437

Deltareely 1,656 1,709

Denali 1,808 1,866

Dillingham 1,218 1,257

Fairbanks 817 843

Galena 255 263

Haines 626 646

Hoonah 298 308

Iditarod 211 218

Juneau 604 623

Kake 271 280

Kashunamiut 5 5

Kenai Peninsula 766 944

Ketchikan 727 750

Klawock 584 603

Kodiak Island 799 825

Kuspuk 654 675

Lake and Peninsula 384 396

Lower Kuskokwim 277 286

Lower Yukon 1 1

Matanuska-Susitna 910 939

Nenana 587 606

Nome 621 641

North Slope 1,120 1,156

Northwest Arctic 25 26

Pelican 72 74

Petersburg 374 386

Saint Mary's 193 199

Sitka 428 442

Skagway 36 37

Southeast Island 1,155 1,192

Southwest Region 598 617

Tanana 478 493

Unalaska 648 669

Valdez 735 759

Wrangell 701 723

Yakutat 744 768

Yukon Flats 264 272

Yukon/Koyukuk 299 309

Yupiit 2 2.

(b) The department shall adopt regulations that provide for oversight of and support to school districts in achieving a safe and cost-effective student transportation system. The regulations must include a requirement for contract terms of not less than three years, if feasible, standardized conditions and bid periods, and standards that ensure cost efficiencies and exclusions.

(c) [Repealed, Sec. 11 ch 9 SLA 2008].

(d) In this section,

(1) "ADM" has the meaning given in AS 14.17.990 ;

(2) "district's ADM" means the sum of the ADMs in the district.